Wu Song who took over as Managing Director of LiuGong India Pvt Ltd on April 1, 2016, after relinquishing his earlier position as CFO of the company, shares his thoughts on the companys plans with EQUIPMENT INDIA.

Vermeer Texas-Louisiana, distributor of underground and environmental equipment with 12 locations across Texas and south Louisiana, has acquired distribution rights to the Bobcat product line in its Corpus Christi and Alamo locations.

Trimble and Hyundai Heavy Industries (HHI) announced a plan to integrate, engineer and market Trimble Ready® factory fit machine control kits to enable the installation of Trimble® GCS900 Grade Control System components on select HHI excavators in the aftermarket.

Motors and control valves are essential components of any hydraulically operated machine as they are instrumental in creating the required motion. To explain it simply through an analogy with the human body, motors can be compared to our limbs and control valves to our brain.

Gone were the days when the backhoe loader market was exploding in all facets of India´s infrastructure development. All recognised suppliers were registering negative to flat trajectory growth since FY 2011.

Currently we have two active projects in Bhutan. Also, recently we have been awarded some road projects such as the Eastern Periphery Road and the Gorakhpur road project. We have bid for more projects, but they are yet to be awarded to us.

Almost two decades ago, a skid steer machine was connoted as ´Bobcat´, because that was the most popular brand of skid steer machines in the world. The term ´skid steer´ stands for turning on its axis by skidding and not by steering the wheels.

LiuGong launched 22 tonne heavy duty (HD) crawler excavators in India. The first machine will be delivered to a customer in Faridabad. LiuGong introduced 22 tonne excavator after three years of R&D study and testing in various applications.

Bauma 2016 - the biggest trade show on earth - spread across over 608,503 sq m (1.5 lakh acres) exceeded expectations this year with a participation of 3,423 exhibitors from 58 countries and the presence of about 580,000 visitors from 200 countries.